The Moral Instructor and Guide to Virtue and Happinessauthor, 1819 - 228 Seiten |
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... whole anterior space of time , but few comparatively can meet the expense of private libraries . Computing the leisure of every youth to be two hours daily , from the age of ten to twenty one years , independent of the requi- site time ...
... whole anterior space of time , but few comparatively can meet the expense of private libraries . Computing the leisure of every youth to be two hours daily , from the age of ten to twenty one years , independent of the requi- site time ...
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... whole human family . By useful knowledge , I mean , not only an acquaintance with valuable arts and sciences , but also an understanding of our various moral and religious duties , in relation to cur Creator , to our neigh- bor , and to ...
... whole human family . By useful knowledge , I mean , not only an acquaintance with valuable arts and sciences , but also an understanding of our various moral and religious duties , in relation to cur Creator , to our neigh- bor , and to ...
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... whole human race ! You constitute the only insulated Arrarat , on which the Olive Branch of Peace , and the " glad tidings " of Freedom and Happiness , can be deposited and preserv ed to a groaning World , drowned in tears !! Prove your ...
... whole human race ! You constitute the only insulated Arrarat , on which the Olive Branch of Peace , and the " glad tidings " of Freedom and Happiness , can be deposited and preserv ed to a groaning World , drowned in tears !! Prove your ...
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... whole of them . The youth , not already trained to deprav- ity , that can read merely these books , without being faci- nated with the pleasures of science , wisdom , benevolence , and moral rectitude , must be a prodigy of stupidity ...
... whole of them . The youth , not already trained to deprav- ity , that can read merely these books , without being faci- nated with the pleasures of science , wisdom , benevolence , and moral rectitude , must be a prodigy of stupidity ...
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... whole amount must be millions . We all inquire what can be done . We cannot take away personal liberty . We cannot prohibit spirituous liquors . We cannot punish per- sons not convicted of any breach of the laws . We cannot distinguish ...
... whole amount must be millions . We all inquire what can be done . We cannot take away personal liberty . We cannot prohibit spirituous liquors . We cannot punish per- sons not convicted of any breach of the laws . We cannot distinguish ...
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actions Alcibiades amongst anger ardent spirits Athenians Athens benefit body cause cial common conduct Confucius conscience consequences constitution crimes death Demetrius diseases distilled spirits domestic dram drink duty effects effeminacy Euthydemus evil exercise faculties father fear Fecula fortune friends give habits heart honor ignorance injury innocent instruction intemperance Jupiter justice kind knowledge labor law of nature Lebanon liberty live luxury mankind manner means mind misery moral nation necessary neighbor never obligation ourselves pain parents passions peace perfect persons philosophy pleasure political portunities possession poverty precepts present preservation principles printing press produce prudence punishment reason render respect riches ridiculous rule Samuel Adams says schools Seneca sense social society Socrates Sotion soul spirituous liquors suffer temperance Themistocles thing tion truth turbed ture vice violence virtue whole wisdom wise word youth
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Seite 198 - The earth must be laboured before it gives its increase, and when it is forced into its several products, how many hands must they pass through before they are fit for use ! Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty...
Seite 200 - Blistering, cupping, bleeding are seldom of use but to the idle and intemperate ; as all those inward applications which are so much in practice among us, are for the most part nothing else but expedients to make luxury consistent with health. The apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the cook and the vintner.
Seite 170 - ... the method of coming at the will of God, concerning any action by the light of nature, is to inquire into the tendency of that action to promote or diminish the general happiness.
Seite 164 - ... such as lead a monastic life. Of the same nature with the indulgence of our domestic affections, and equally refreshing to the spirits, is the pleasure which results from acts of bounty and beneficence, exercised either in giving "money or in imparting to those •who want it (he assistance of our skill and profession. Another main article of human happiness is, II. The exercise of our faculties, either of body or mind, in the pursuit of some engaging end.
Seite 201 - For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers, lying in ambuscade among the dishes.
Seite 164 - All that can be said is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the apparent happiness of mankind be not always a true measure of their real happiness, it is the best measure we have.
Seite 178 - Whence a person who is provided with neither (and neither can be acquired without exercise and instruction) will be useless; and he that is useless, will generally be at the same time mischievous to the community. So that to send an uneducated child into the world, is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog or a wild beast into the streets.
Seite 166 - When we are in perfect health and spirits, we feel in ourselves a happiness independent of any particular outward gratification whatever, and of which we can give no account. This is an enjoyment which the Deity has annexed to life ; and it probably constitutes, in a great measure, the happiness of infants and brutes, especially of the lower and sedentary- orders of animals, as of oysters, periwinkles, and the like ; for which I have sometimes been at a loss to find out amusement.
Seite 199 - ... ball of wood, and filled it with several drugs; after which he closed it up so artificially that nothing appeared. He likewise took a mall, and after having hollowed the handle, and that part which strikes the ball, he inclosed in them several drugs after the game manner as in the ball itself.